The White House is coming to San Antonio, sort of

Starting Thursday, a plethora of Obama administration officials will be in town for several major events, including one of the White House’s ongoing series of Hispanic Community Action Summits.

San Antonio’s begins at 9 a.m. Friday at Fox Tech High School downtown, and it’s open to the public.

The daylong summit — a wide-ranging set of policy discussions on education, immigration policy, health care and job creation — will begin with a keynote from Education Secretary Arne Duncan.

Community leaders, educators, small business owners and state and local elected officials have been invited to interact with federal officials such as Felicia Escobar, senior policy advisor on the White House’s Domestic Policy Council; José Rico, director of the White House Initiative on Educational Excellence for Hispanics; and Julie Chávez Rodriguez, associate director of the White House’s Office of Public Engagement.

Federal policy issues, federal initiatives and federal programs — all things federal affecting Hispanics — will be discussed. A morning plenary will be followed by “a set of open space dialogues, in which participants set the agenda and identify action steps with officials throughout the afternoon.”

Members of the public must register in advance to participate in the summit. Go here to do that.

White House Hispanic summits have been held in cities such as Albuquerque, Las Vegas, Denver, San Jose, New York, Miami, Phoenix and Cleveland. The first was last summer.